The CPRC has compiled a list of states that allow teachers or staff to carry guns at school. After the Parkland school shooting in February, Florida passed a law mandating that all schools in the state hire police to guard their schools. Thirteen of the school...
Laura Ingraham cites on Dr. John Lott's research on Crime by Illegal Aliens during her show on Fox News. A copy of the research is available here. (Tuesday, August 7, 2018)
On Monday, July 9th, Dr. John Lott was the lead witness before the Arkansas Legislature's Joint Performance Review Committee. A copy of Lott's PowerPoint is available here. From CBS Channel 11 in Little Rock. But the uniform praise for SRO’s came to a halt later at...
Breitbart.com, June 25, 2018 and related stories at The Western Journal, June 26, 2018; Inquisitr, June 26, 2018; Russia Television, June 26, 2018; Think Progress, June 25, 2018; and The Blaze, June 26 2018 Now voices as disparate as actor James Woods, law professor...
UPDATE: New Rasmussen Poll: "59% of all voters are concerned that those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence, with 33% who are Very Concerned" During March of Obama's second year in office, the same numbers were "53% and 28% respectively."...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed about recent claims about how frequent schools shootings are in the US. From the Fox News article: John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center and contributor to FoxNews.com, who has published “More Guns, Less Crime,”...
George Mason economics Professor Walter Williams discusses some of Dr. John Lott's past writings in his weekly national column. His column is syndicated by Creators. legal scholar John Lott argues that gun accessibility in our country has never been as restricted as...
USA Today, May 4, 2018 Fox News columnist John Lott said the "news media love to criticize hypocrisy — at least by conservatives — even when it doesn’t exist." "Protecting the president and vice president of the United States from assassination is not the same as...
Mike Pesca with Slate mentions President Trump using CPRC's research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones. An explanation for why Pesca and others are wrong in questioning the CPRC numbers is available here. May 4, 2018
Townhall, April 28, 2018 But a study of global mass-shooting incidents from 2009 to 2015 by the Crime Prevention Research Center, headed by economist John Lott, shows the U.S. doesn't lead the world in mass shootings. In fact, it doesn't even make the top 10, when...
Should teachers and staff at schools be armed? John Stossel and producer Maxim Lott made a video analyzing that question, and used CPRC research to do so. More information on concealed handguns at schools is available here. There are a couple of nitpicking points to...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the Associated Press about a case that was clearly not protected by the state's Stand Your Ground law. No reasonable person would have felt threatened by the criminal once he was lying unconscious on the floor. Here is part of the...